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Flood season began in April in Tajikistan, but this year Malika, 51, mother of six, was ready to protect her village. As water and mud began flowing down the hills that surrounding her village of Shokhindoz in the Rasht Valley, Malika organized a team of fifteen women and two men on a three-day operation...

When the earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April, the first responders were community members themselves: neighbours, family-members and friends grouping around to help one another. When rescuers and aid workers started to arrive to help, many community members joined the relief effort, most as unpaid volunteers...

With the onset of the monsoon season, which often brings heavy downpours, floods and landslides in Nepal, United Nations and humanitarian partners have expedited distribution of basic food items to earthquake-affected families in Sindhupalchowk, the country’s worst-hit district, east of the capital,...

She pauses for a moment when asked about the damages caused to her family by the devastating Nepal earthquake of 25 April 2015. Seconds later, 70-year-old Purna Maya Magar, from Ghorthali village in Sindhupalchowk, the worst-hit district, mumbles at a loss for words to describe it.
Last week, Purna was...

Six weeks after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal on 25 April, followed by a second quake on 12 May, inhabitants of the villages in Sindhupalchok district are preparing for the onset of the monsoon rains.
Farmers eke out a living planting rice and corn on terraces perched precariously on the sides...